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I have been banded now for 6 months. I have lost 69 pounds total and have felt great until 2 days ago. I have never had a stuck episode or nausea or any complications. I now have a feeling in my upper stomach that almost feels like an air bubble? I am able to swallow fine and I don't feel nauseated or anything. It's just a nagging discomfort. Wondered if anyone else has had this before?

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Does gas-x help? How about drinking a really hot liquid?

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I started out with discomfort like that around my 10 month post-op it would come and go, until the pain got so unbearable I would have rather gave birth naturally to ten babies!!! It was my gall bladder which is very common when losing weight. If the pain doesnt go away or it gets worse ask for an ultrasound of your gall bladder you dont want to go through the torture I went through for months!!

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I started out with discomfort like that around my 10 month post-op it would come and go' date=' until the pain got so unbearable I would have rather gave birth naturally to ten babies!!! It was my gall bladder which is very common when losing weight. If the pain doesnt go away or it gets worse ask for an ultrasound of your gall bladder you dont want to go through the torture I went through for months!![/quote']

Wow! Did you have to have your gallbladder removed?

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Yes at first they said it was a gallstone stuck in my bile duct so they went down my throat and there were no gallstones after 2 more days in the hospital they decided to remove my gallbladder I thought everything was better until I tried to eat again and the pain came back full force. They said when they removed the gall bladder a stone must have dislodged and became stuck in my bile duct, they had to go down my throat again to remove it!!! After a 6 day stay in the hospital =( they pain finally went away!!! Everytime I went to the ER they wanted to blame the pain on my lapband not once did they every check my gallbladder the ER's around my neck of the woods are not lapband friendly!!

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